Anyone who has been keeping up with Nintendo news over the past year or so can attest that the lead-up to the Nintendo Switch 2 has been a wild ride. For the longest time fans were eagerly looking for any news or rumors related to the system, and any insider…
One of the most striking things about the design of the Switch 2 is how basic everything is. Gone are the days of New 3DS Faceplates or fun colors, and in is Nintendo’s era of functionality over personality… or so we thought. If a recent listing by AliExpress is anything…
Raid Hour (also referred to as Legendary Raid Hour) started as an experiment in March 2019. Initially called Legendary Lunch Hour, Niantic set aside an hour on Wednesdays for Pokémon GO Trainers to find 5-Star (Legendary) Raids easier by increasing the appearance rates. After further testing, Raid Hour was renamed…
SNK has been adding many a guest character to the latest title in the Samurai Shodown series, ranging from Ubisoft’s For Honor and the company’s own The Last Blade. As part of the Japan Fighter Game Publishers Roundtable #2, though, they decided to rock fans with an even more unexpected…
One of the biggest surprises of the second Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable came courtesy of Arika. Founded by the creators of Street Fighter II after they left Capcom, they would go on to develop the Street Fighter EX and eventually take those original characters and create their own game…
One of the biggest surprises out of this week’s Nintendo Direct had to have been the announcement of both Famicom Detective Club remakes getting localized. These NES era mysteries are exciting gets in their own right, but if you love your retro revivals or have been extremely curious about Ayumi…
As part of this year’s BlizzCon, Blizzard has decided to look back on their 30 year history in games and revive a trio of classics. While more known for the likes of Warcraft and Overwatch these days, the three included titles all made their mark on the Super Nintendo (despite…
The Overwatch 2 portion of BlizzConline has officially come to an end, and while a release date was completely MIA and story details were sparse, the rest of the game was detailed heavily and appears to be shaping into something very special. I went into the presentation expecting a run-of-the-mill…
One of Rare’s last projects with Nintendo was the GameCube’s Star Fox Adventures – a surreal game starring Star Fox characters that shared more in common with Zelda than the space-faring action of its source material. That was due to the game effectively being a retooled Nintendo 64 game called…
Diablo II is coming to Nintendo Switch in the form of Diablo II: Resurrected, a “faithful remaster” of the original 2000 RPG hack-and-slash for PC and Mac. Diablo II: Resurrected will take the original 2D sprite-based game and update it with “full 3D physically-based rendering, dynamic lighting, revamped…
Street Fighter icons Ryu and Chun-Li will be joining the fray in Fortnite this weekend. Fortnite’s YouTube channel shared the news with a video calling back to the characters’ arcade origins. Ryu and Chun-Li are the third and fourth video game stars to join the game this season,…
It’s that time again for a new, weekly Super Mario Bros. 35 Special Battle! theme, and yet, this week we’re getting even more Super Mario Bros. 35 news. First, though, let’s hop down a warp pipe to the most pressing issue. From Thursday, February 18th, at 11 p.m. PT until…
This week’s Nintendo Direct introduced us to Square Enix’s HD-2D follow up to Octopath Traveler, tentatively titled “Project Triangle Strategy.” They wasted no time giving us a sample of this new project, with a demo going live after the Direct had finished, with the promise of a survey for feedback…
The GameBoy Advance SP has long been held as the definitive platform to enjoy GameBoy titles on. This has been thanks to its extremely portable form factor, an illuminated display, and most importantly, its ability to play the entirety of the GameBoy library. There really is only one major flaw…
This April, Koei Tecmo will be bringing the “Mysterious” trilogy of Atelier games to the Switch with a Deluxe Pack. This includes the Switch debuts of the Atelier Sophie and Atelier Firis games, as well as an updated DX port of Atelier Lydie & Suelle. If you’ve been curious how…
